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RE: TIL What A Limnic Eruption Is
We almost died turning on our furnace the first time in an apartment in Houston. The chimney pipe was rusted almost shut, which deprived the furnace of oxygen and caused it to start slowly pumping out carbon monoxide. Should have been inspected by the owner before we moved in but wasn't. Fortunately my wife had bought the smoke detectors with the built-in CO alarm, which woke us from a sound sleep at 2am, telling us by recording to open the windows immediately.
OMG, what year did this happen?
Oh, probably 2003 (having a small child at the time means that there were lots of other sleep-related reasons for fuzzy memory). We were lucky. CO is toxic to almost all cells, but because brain cells are such energy hogs they usually see the damage first.